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WATCH: Remi Kanazi’s new poem, “Nakba,” about his grandmother’s expulsion in 1948

We will return.
That is not a threat
not a wish
a hope
or a dream
but a promise.

In the above video, posted today, on Nakba Day — when Palestinians mark the anniversary of expulsion and exile from their homeland — New York-based poet and activist Remi Kanazi performs a moving new poem entitled “Nakba.” In an email to The Electronic Intifada, Kanazi said the poem is an “intimate piece that focuses on the dispossession of my grandmother in 1948 and some of the realities the Nakba produced.”

Rami- my Brother those were words that spoke to the heart. Wow. Tears run from my eyes as I write. The horror, the pain and suffering but the strength to carry on in the name of your country and the name of your people.
The same happened to my ancestors ripped from Africa and brutalized here, then the history re- written , like a fairy tale.
Speak my brother ! Keep speaking, as your words will be as a weapon of truth !